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The visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Sri Lanka from January 8 to 9, and the Indian Foreign Minister S.Jaishankar’s recent phone call to his Lankan counterpart...
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Maya Angelou, poet and social activist, became the first black woman to be featured on the U.S. quarter.
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Maldives-Bangladesh ties were taken to new heights recently in late 2021, when the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, made an official state visit to the Maldives from 22 to...
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier appointed Joachim Nagel as President of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Steinmeier presented the certificate of appointment to Nagel at Schloss Bellevue on 7 January. The 55-year-old economist...
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Apple was briefly valued at USD3 trillion on Monday, 3 January 2022, just over a year after the company first surpassed USD2 trillion in value and three years since it...
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The Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, is on a swing through the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) from January 4 to 9. Wang’s trip spans the IOR from the East African...
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China is assiduously cultivating North Sri Lankan Tamil fishermen in an effort to fill a gap created by India’s inaction in regard to the suffering these fishermen undergo as a...
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Diplomacy has been and always will be the most effective tool at the disposal of a small developing island nation like the Maldives, and the craft has had time to...
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There are times when the simplest phrase, when given proper context, could inspire drastic change or motivation. One is reminded of a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt; “Learn from the mistakes...
